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APP Fraud, Identity Fraud and AI-Enabled Fraud Spotlighted as Main Threats Facing Fintech

The Fintech Times

Thirty-nine per cent of respondents said that in 2024, someone being tricked into buying goods that don’t exist or send a bank transfer to a fraudster impersonating someone else, otherwise known as APP fraud, would be the biggest cause for concern. More complex and financially damaging types of APP fraud include romance scams.

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Crypto Crime Drops 39% But Challenges Persist, Including Ransomware Attacks, Transactions with Sanctioned Entities

Fintech News

In particular, the report notes that scamming is most successful when markets are up, exuberance is high, and people feel like they are missing out on an opportunity to get rich quickly. Additionally, many crypto scammers are moving towards romance scam tactics, making these scams more difficult to uncover.

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APP: The Biggest Fraud Threat with AI the Solution,” Says The Payments Association Survey

Fintech Finance

Deceptively simple, APP fraud involves a person being tricked into buying goods that don’t exist or sending a bank transfer to a fraudster posing as someone trustworthy. More complex and financially damaging types of APP fraud include romance scams. Both share a multitude of similarities with APP fraud.

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Retail Payments Fraud: How Consumers and Banks Can Fight Back

FICO

Increasingly, the scams involve cryptocurrencies; The New York Times also recently investigating crypto romance scams in which victims are lured into paying criminals with fraudulent, and irrevocable, transfers into digital wallets. Consumers: Slow Down, You’re Moving Too Fast. by TJ Horan.

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How Advanced Technology is Driving Authorized Push Payment Fraud

Seon

Often, the fraudsters enter through impersonation, a romance scam or another type of social engineering fraud scam. Still, the result is the same: a victim-initiated money transfer resulting in money in an account owned by a fraudster.

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Fraud remains a major problem as over £1 billion is stolen by criminals in 2023

Neopay

There was a seven per cent increase in the amount of unauthorised fraud prevented, to £1.25 Victims of unauthorised fraud cases such as these are legally protected against losses. And UK Finance research indicates that customers are fully refunded in more than 98 per cent of unauthorised fraud cases.

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 Justice Department Indicts 80 in Massive Online Fraud Scheme

PYMNTS

history and said in a statement that “fraud networks now target individuals and businesses alike … In the BEC scams, the fraudsters will often hack a company’s email system, impersonate company personnel, and direct payments to bank accounts that funnel money back to the fraudsters in Nigeria.”